Jacques Eléonor Rouxel de Grancey

Who was Jacques Eléonor Rouxel de Grancey?

Jacques Eléonor Rouxel, comte de Grancey, comte de Médavy was a Marshal of France.

He was the grandson of Jacques Rouxel de Grancey, also Marshal of France.

A Cadet in the Gardes du Corps at the age of 18, he was Brigadier of the armées du Roi in 1688 and a Lieutenant General in 1702.

Principal military actions:

The conquest of the Franche-Comté

Battle of Seneffe

Battle of Konzer Brucke, where he was wounded and taken prisoner

Defence of Bonn

Battle of Staffarda

Conquest of Saluzzo, Nice and Villefranche

Battle of Marsaglia, where he was wounded.

Battle of Luzzara

Siege of Vercelli

Taking of Yvrée

Battle of Cassano

Battle of Castiglione

After the war, he was named Gouverneur général of the Nivernais and Donzois and the cities of Sedan and Thionville in 1720. In 1724 he was made a Marshal of France by King Louis XV of France.

On 12 June 1685 he married Marie-Thérèse Colbert, a niece of Jean-Baptiste Colbert. They had three daughters, all of whom died before Rouxel.